Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-21
THE BOOM.
With Renewed yigor tho Energetic
Spirits OF Fort Worth are Pushing
Enterprises 10 Completion.
The Manufacturing Era has Begun and
VIII Know abatement for
Years to Come.
GRANITE ROOFING WORKS.

mention of the fact that MesSrS. Hough
AMI Crawford of Kansas City were in Fort
Worth with view Of selecting q location
here or elsewhere in Texas for the estsb-
lishment Of a mammoth granite roofing
plant. They were shown over the city
and then went to Dallas. After thor
oughly looking over thst place, they
! found it to Iscka number of requisites
for the enterprise which Fort Worth
alone possessed Of the Texas cities they
had seen. They returned here
and decided to locate. They
desired to capitalize 8 company
for $4,000 stock, all paid up, and with
the aid of the enterprisipg Fort Worth
men soon had the amount nearly raised.
The charter hiss been GrsWn up snd for
warded TO Austin and a lot l00X200 feet
purchased which sWill DE literally Gov
cred with buildings TO accommodate the
vast business they will do here. -four
ishing plant is now il operation 81 kansss
City.
THE COLLAR FACTORY.
The charter of the Fort Worth Spanish
Horse Collar Factory will De back from
Austin in day or two, but the company,
meaning business, decided yesterday to
begin preparatory work at once. Thomas
Roche will therefore build for the com
pany at once. corner Rusk and Ninth
streets, a handsome tWo-5tOTy factory
building, 50Xl00 feet, and the machinery
needed in the enterprise has been ordered
and will soon be shipped from the fac
tory. The company has already number
of orders from harness makers ard has
begun the work of contracting for ma
terial to be used.
THE TANNERY.
Walker & Keith, propTietors of the tan
merry, were happy yesterday, as they
deserved to be, for the last work
bad been done on their three
and a half story tannery building and
they were moving into il. The new watts
are already in place and are being filed
with b les of all descriptions as rapidly
as poss bic. The building is first class
in every particular and the proprietors
were kept busy yesterday showing
visitors through the establishment.
This firm has already built up
a good business, and the line of work
done by them was increased yesterday bV
the addition Of sole leather to their stock.
Mr.. Walker says fall sets of tools
are on TIE way, and this tan
merry will be as we'll equipped
as any in the country. Mr.lKeith showed
the reporter some of the last work done
in the shape eff black deer hide, buckskin,
French calf, white tanned, goat and calf
| tanned with the hair on. A beautiful hide
! from 8 half breed Merino sheep and An
CORA goat was simply beautiful, and dem
/ Oustrated that no work was too fine for
| .heif establishment to do.
! THE FORT WORTH TANNERY.
I Mr.. Imboden, president OF this cor
/ poratiOn, said yesterday: "You may say
! that we have purchased q site on
| I'll river bank near the other
tannery for our plant and will az once
| begin the erection of 8 three-story iron
| building 30x80 feet in which tO carry on
our enterprise. One tannery will aid the
other, and in fact the proprietors of the
! other tanneTy, Messrs. Walker & Keith,
are stockholders in our enterprise. You
can count on the Fort Worth tannery
being pushed.
A BEAUTIFUL ADDITION.
The Texas and Pacific has sold 20
Casey & SWasey, Roche Brothers and
others, thirty-tive acres off the western
end of the reservation at $1,000 per acre
and the eDterprising owners are laying
out this magnificent addition in royal
style. A grand boulevard 12j feet wide
has been graded and considerable por-
ton of it gTaVelled, Snd one standing near
the Fort Worth Iron Works cannot but
be struck with the beauty of
the design. A large force of men is busy
at work here and every days labor makes
the place more beautiful.
REALTY DOINGS
A careful inquiry from real estate men
and fIom citizens and strangers now in
Fort Worth who have made purchases of
realtyduri9g theweek just gone shows that
the grand aggregate of sales foots up
over 1914 900. The same careful work
showed that yesterdays transactions,
trades closed and bargains made reached
q sum total Cf $lS2, OC0. Mr.. McCert
gave the reporter q list of properties pur-
chased by Colonel r, NJ. Wynne,
r. E. Maddox and himself
jointly @which toots up SIS, $50.
Colonel X. +. Maddox has IN the last few
days planted over $780, in really, and
proposes to begin building boom of his
own in short time.
B. d. CasWell of Reno, Kan, and
Lewis o. Smith of Wichita, Kan, are
again in the market and are investing
heavily.
Two months ago a certain lot running
from Main to Houston street, fifty feet
front was on the books of q real estate
man for $1,000. He did not sell a. the
time, but one day last week that same
lot brought the handsome sum Of Sl6,-
600.
gentleman ten days ago had two
Calhoun street lots on the market st
$500 each. He saw how
the cat was jumping and
gave notice TO his agent to make the price
$1,000 for the two lots. The agent was
somewhat surprised, but next day sold
the two lots for the $1,000.
A negro man living in the Third ward
has g lot that six months ago he said he
would tske 5000 for. II is
25X9O, on che of the side
streets. Thursday last be was offered
$1,000 cash, but was not ready to sell.
Yesterday the offer was raised to $500,
and the poor fellow not knowing what TO
do, went up town and told his troubles to
a white friend. Just tell the man you
have Withdrawn the lot from the market
and that will settle it." Sambo was de-
lighted and says, "Dat lot am not fer
sale"
Real Estate Exchange is needed-it
is needed now. Cannot the organization
be expedited?